THREAT TO CHURCH.
ACTION IN BAVARIA
REDUCTION OF REVENUE
BERLIN, June 28,
The Bavarian Minister of Education (Herr J. Wagner) addressing Nazi functionaries, said the only organised force disturbing German unity was that of the churches, yet they were financially dependent on the country. The Roman Catholic Church in Bavaria had received 140,(100,000 marks from the country since 1933, he declared. Henceforth these revenues would be cut down, leaving only the funds agreed upon under the Vatican Concordat and amounting to one-third of the present total. The remainder would he used to build schools.
“If the church cannot manage on this it should he more economical,” Herr Wagner added. He added, amid booing, that the Archbishop of Munich, Cardinal Michel Faulhaher, received 28,950 marks a year and the bishops 14,000. “These are very decent sums for people who have renounced the world,” he . said. As Bavaria previously had been an experimental laboratory for Nazism, it is believed that similar reductions are foreshadowed throughout Germany.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 178, 29 June 1937, Page 7
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164THREAT TO CHURCH. Manawatu Standard, Volume LVII, Issue 178, 29 June 1937, Page 7
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